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With his speech, Humphrey succeeded in embarrassing Nixon slightly about his silence on the war. Writing in the Ripon Forum, magazine of the liberal Ripon Society, Oregon's G.O.P. Senator Mark Hatfield pointedly noted: "The Paris peace talks should not become the skirt for timid men to hide behind." But only a disastrous dive in the polls could persuade Nixon to risk a potentially dangerous fight on the issue. He still maintains that for candidates to discuss possible future settlements can only damage efforts...
...apparently become clear to Hatfield that the time has come to begin rallying anti-war Republicans to a position of loyal opposition within the party. Like John Lindsay, the favorite Republican of most Ripon members, Hatfield would have liked to see the GOP seek the support of the McCarthy movement...
Some ideas about the nature of the liberal opposition within the Nixon Administration can be found in the current issue of the Ripon Forum. The Forum, the publication and essence of the six-year-old Ripon Society, a Cambridge-based group of young GOP liberals, includes this month a series of brief policy papers on Vietnam and the draft, the results of a Ripon poll on the presidential elections, and a guest editorial on Vietnam by the first of the Republican doves, Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon...
McCarthy, in fact, epitomizes the spirit of the Ripon Society more precisely than any Republican. Like McCarthy, Ripon people take a somewhat elitist view of political change, placing great emphasis on compassion and reasonableness on the part of those who govern and tending to distrust both pluralism and the concentration of executive power. These were the instincts that made McCarthy seem so out of place in the traditional Democratic Party...
...groups which made American pluralism--the workers, the immigrants, the blacks and the poor--are virtually unrepresented within the Republican party, and it is for this very reason that the Ripon Society can stay comfortably within the GOP no matter how conservative the party may become. The Ripon Society can be "policy-oriented" because it represents almost no one: its members are, above all else, disinterested. There are no strong lobbies within the GOP for draft reform, or public housing, or aid to black businesses, or pro-labor legislation, simply because the groups which seek these kinds of programs...